# CSV output plugin: encoding
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384 "2018-06-26T08:20:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jean-Marc\_Autexier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jean-Marc_Autexier)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/1 "2018-06-26T08:20:26Z")
Hi,
I'm reading data usign jdbc from a database and writing them into a CSV file using the logstash csv output plugin. The data contains UTF-8 charcaters.
How can I configure the encoding of the csv fiel to UTF-8?
br,
Jean-Marc
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/2 "2018-06-26T08:36:42Z")
I'd expect that to be the default. What are you getting now?
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### Author:  [@Jean-Marc\_Autexier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jean-Marc_Autexier)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/3 "2018-06-26T09:00:58Z")
thanks for your quick response.
Looking at the file, indeed it seems to be utf-8 (but I have to further check it).
But the file has no BOM, so some tools are confused...
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### Author:  [@Jean-Marc\_Autexier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jean-Marc_Autexier)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/4 "2018-06-26T09:14:15Z")
further checking the data, it looks like the problem is a backslash at the end of a string.
The backslash is not escaped, so it is escaping the quote.
```
String (from a jdbc db): test\
Generated (quoted) string in csv file: "test\"
The expected quoted string in csv is: "test\\"
```
Updated, to avoid that discuss remove the backslashes
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/5 "2018-06-26T09:18:08Z")
That definitely sounds like a bug.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-output-plugin-encoding/137384/6 "2018-07-24T09:18:11Z")
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